Isaiah 53:3

Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

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In The King James Version

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

In Context

2For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;

4But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.

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Cross References

Psalms 22:6\22:5\They sent up their cry to you and were made free: they put their faith in you and were not put to shame.

Psalms 69:10\69:9\I am on fire with passion for your house; and the hard things which are said about you have come on me.

Psalms 69:29\69:28\Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.

Isaiah 49:7The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.

Isaiah 53:4But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.

Micah 5:1\5:2\And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 53:2-4

The Humiliation of the Messiah. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. The prophet, in the close of the… Read the whole commentary →

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